Schisis
2025
Schisis is a photographic project exploring vision as a shifting field—where light, distance, and memory shape what we think we see
Concept
Schisis is a photographic project made in response to a diagnosis of retinoschisis—a rare condition in which the layers of the retina begin to separate. Often stable and without symptoms, it can sometimes progress, leading to subtle shifts in perception: the gradual distortion, blurring, or fracturing of the visual field. This change prompted a deeper awareness of how vision can shift over time, refracting between what is seen and what is expected.
The project is informed by this uncertainty. The images recall something distant, drawing on the language of the universe—light, expansion, unknowable scale—yet remain deliberately ambiguous.
It engages with the idea that seeing, like looking deep into the universe, is never direct. What is perceived arrives filtered—through time, distance, and the accumulation of prior experience. Vision is not passive; it is shaped, influenced, and often unconsciously interpreted before recognition takes place.
Schisis considers how vision operates in the space between observation and assumption—and how that space is more fragile, and more constructed, than it may appear.
